BURNABY, British Columbia & ASHLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FlowJo, LLC, a single-cell data informatics and data analysis company
with 20 years of experience, announced a partnership with Cytapex
Bioinformatics, Inc. to provide bioinformatics consulting and services
in combination with the FlowJo® application. The agreement
will leverage FlowJo’s expertise in empowering bench scientists to
perform complex analyses quickly and easily and Cytapex’s expertise in
bioinformatic pipelines and consulting. Under the partnership, the
companies will offer consulting services in flow cytometry data analysis.

The services complement researchers’ work in flow cytometry and allows
for custom pipeline development, including plugin “app” development for
the FlowJo application.

The companies announced the partnership and presented the services as
part of presentations given by Ryan Brinkman, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of
Cytapex and Melanie O'Donahue, MT, ASCP, CCy Clinical Application
Scientist at FlowJo, LLC.

Together with FlowJo®, the leading single-cell flow cytometry
analysis software, the partnership aims to put the most powerful
bioinformatics approaches into the hands of anyone who needs them, in a
manner that is familiar and friendly to use.

“Ryan is one of the leaders in bringing automation and algorithmic
approaches to single-cell data analysis. The combination of FlowJo for
interacting easily with data, preprocessing, and visualization, and
Ryan’s expertise for problems that require bioinformatics approaches
completes the toolbox needed to do unbounded research,” said John Quinn,
Ph.D., Application Scientist with FlowJo, LLC.

Leveraging knowledge that scientists have built into their FlowJo
analyses, Cytapex customizes bioinformatics pipelines to add
high-throughput and high-dimensional tools that leverage algorithms
developed by Dr. Brinkman’s group, which have consistently been
peer-reviewed to be the state-of-the-art.

“I knew over 10 years ago when we started developing automated analysis
tools for flow cytometry we were never going to come close to being able
to deliver the ease of use that users gain from FlowJo. While we have
made significant advances in quality checking, automated gating and
biomarker discovery algorithms since then, FlowJo has also continued to
improve upon data interactivity, and remains the leader in this area
today. Partnering with FlowJo allows us to get our tools into end users’
hands in a way that they are accustomed to use, specifically customized
for their dataset and needs,” said Ryan Brinkman, Ph.D., Founder and CEO
of Cytapex.

The services are available now.

About FlowJo, LLC

FlowJo, LLC is a privately owned life sciences informatics company in
Ashland, Oregon. Based on technology developed at Stanford, the company
was founded in 1997 and provides the leading analysis platform for
single-cell flow cytometry analysis. Their software innovations enable
collaboration, discovery, high-throughput analysis, and data leadership
in single-cell biology. For more information, see www.flowjo.com.

About Cytapex Bioinformatics, Inc.

Founded by Dr. Ryan Brinkman, a leader in flow cytometry informatics, a
Distinguished Scientist at the British Columbia Cancer Agency, and
Professor of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia,
Cytapex removes the barriers to high-throughput and high-dimensional
cytometry data by providing expert services in data management, quality
checking, and data analysis, including customized gating and biomarker
discovery pipelines. Their clients include basic researchers,
clinicians, testing service providers, small and big pharma, and
clinical trial groups. For more information, see http://cytapex.com/.